Sentences with phrase «vote against the speaker»

To force a floor vote against the speaker's wishes, Reynoso and Torres would need a majority of their 51 colleagues to back them in a parliamentary maneuver called a «discharge of committee.»

Not exact matches

Buffalo Comptroller Mark Schroeder, who vacated the 145th in January to take his current job, routinely voted against Silver for speaker — often casting the lone «no» vote — and regularly criticized him publicly, particularly on his perceived lack of support for UB 2020.

I noticed far more speakers against reform of the Lords than for - perhaps because pro-reform Tories knew, the programme motion having been withdrawn, that they would win the Second Reading vote easily (thanks to Labour votes).

The bill's fate will rest in large measure with the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, who voted against the Armory project last year but whose office declined to comment on the wage bill.

A number of speakers challenged the continuing anachronism of having 26 seats reserved for bishops in the House of Lords, while others pointed out the contrast between the recent House of Commons vote against legalising assisted dying and the overwhelming public support in favour suggested that a more representative Parliament would also be a more progressive one.

He once voted against the budget, and the speaker took revenge by slashing his entire allocation.

Perez spokesman Doug Herman said that the speaker promises not to take any action against delegates who defied their appointing authority in the endorsement vote.

Ryan says it took 96 hours from the release of the criminal complaint against the Manhattan Democrat, until members voted to remove him and appoint an interim speaker, Majority Leader Joe Morelle.

By voting to elect all shadow cabinet members against the advice of former Ministers like Jack Straw and Phil Woolas and most speakers at the PLP meeting other than Frank Dobson, Labour MPs voted to be treated as more than just voting fodder.

For the first time in decades, the Assembly has a speaker (Carl Heastie) who's willing to vote against proposed legislation, at least on occasion.

Among the speakers, Solon Supervisor Steve Furlin relayed a vote from his town board against ash with a threat to legislators, that people will watch their votes and remember it at the next election.

Three of the six Democrats seeking the party's ballot line against Rep. Elise Stefanik in Upstate New York's 21st Congressional District said Wednesday that they would not vote for Pelosi for speaker.

Despite requests from several speakers from Cortland and across the state, legislators voted against the proposal.

Hazlehurst and 14 other speakers were part of an effort to pushback against the motion, which was scheduled for a board vote later in the day.

When a Delegate raises a resolution for the following month during the new motion period, one speaker is allowed both for and against the motion and then it is voted on.

«When I first saw Todd I was so impressed with his speech at the PMI Symposium in Indonesia that I booked him as a speaker for the Microsoft Asia Project Conference, where he was voted the best speaker against tough competition.